Children in antiquity : perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 and ©2021

Subject:

Children - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500
Children - Mediterranean Region - Social conditions
Social archaeology - Mediterranean Region
Mediterranean Region - Antiquities

Contributor:

Beaumont, Lesley A., editor
Dillon, Matthew, editor
Harrington, Nicola, editor

ISBN:

9781138780866 and 1138780863

Series:

Rewriting antiquity

Description:

xxxv, 619 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Investigating the ancient Mediterranean 'childscape' / Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington -- The ancient Egyptian conception of children and childhood / Nicola Harrington -- What is a child in Aegean prehistory? / Anne P. Chapin -- Ideological constructions of childhood in Bronze and Early Iron Age Italy : personhood between marginality and social inclusion / Elisa Perego -- Defining childhood and youth. A regional approach to Archaic and Classical Greece : the case of Athens and Sparta / Lesley A. Beaumont -- The child in Etruscan Italy / Marjatta Nielsen -- Children and the Hellenistic period / Mark Golden -- Roman childhood revisited / Véronique Dasen -- From birth to rebirth : perceptions of childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt / Lissette M. Jiménez -- Looking for children in Late Antiquity / Geoffrey Nathan -- From village to monastery : finding children in the Coptic record from Egypt / Jennifer Cromwell -- The child's experience of daily life in ancient Egypt / Amandine Marshall -- Changing states : daily life of children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece / Susan Langdon -- Children in early Rome and Latium / Sanna Lipkin and Eero Jarva -- Being a child in Archaic and Classical Greece / Robert S.J. Garland -- The daily life of Etruscan babies and children / Larissa Bonfante -- Being a child in the Hellenistic world. A subject out of proportion? / Christian Laes -- Different lives : children's daily experiences in the Roman world / Fanny Dolansky -- Children as instruments of policy in Hadrian's Egypt / Myrto Malouta -- Daily life of children in Late Antiquity -- play, work and vulnerability / Ville Vuolanto -- "Child in the nest" : children in Pharaonic Egyptian religion and rituals / Kasia Szpakowska -- Children and Aegean Bronze Age religion / Ute Günkel-Maschek -- Initiating children into Italian Bronze and Early Iron Age ritual, religion and cosmology / Erik van Rossenberg -- Children in Archaic and Classical Greek religion : Active and passive ritual agency / Matthew Dillon -- Children in Etruscan religion and ritual / Jean MacIntosh Turfa -- Children's roles in Hellenistic religion / Olympia Bobou -- Children in Roman religion and ritual / Janette McWilliam -- Children, religion and ritual in Greco-Roman Egypt / Ada Nifosi -- The child in Late Antique religion and ritual / Beatrice Caseau -- Child, infant and foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record : exploring cultural capacities from the Predynastic to Middle Kingdom Periods (ca.4400-1650 BC) / Ronika K. Power -- "Do not say 'I am young to be taken'" : children and death in ancient Egypt -- Second Intermediate Period to the Late Period / Jessica Kaiser -- Children and death in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece / Chrysanthi Gallou -- Children, death and society in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily / Gillian Shepherd -- Children and death in Archaic and Classical Greece / Vicky Vlachou -- Infancy and childhood in funerary contexts of Early Iron Age Middle Tyrrhenian Italy : a comparative approach / Francesca Fulminante and Simon Stoddart -- Child death in the Hellenistic world / Nikolas Dimakis -- Death of a Roman child / Hugh Lindsay -- Death of a child : demographic and preparation trends of juvenile burials in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum / Kerry Muhlestein and R. Paul Evans -- Infant mortality, Michael Psellos, and the Byzantine demon Gillo / Lynda Garland -- The bioarchaeology of children in Greco-Roman antiquity / Kathryn E. Marklein and Sherry C. Fox -- Infancy and childhood in Roman Egypt : bioarchaeological perspectives / Sandra M. Wheeler, Lana Williams and Tosha L. Dupras -- "The greatest of treasures" : advances in the bioarchaeology of Byzantine children / Chryssi Bourbou

Summary:

"This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses Classical Studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and forensic science. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child's life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

DE61.C4 C45 2021

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